https://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=128.72.146.51 2026-04-29T06:31:44Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.44.2 https://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=RK_Audio&diff=25884 2014-07-16T10:08:11Z

<p>128.72.146.51: Corrected the author first name - he&#039;s Malcolm, not Mark!</p> <hr /> <div>'''RK Audio''' ('''RKAU''') is a [[lossless]] (and [[lossy]]) audio compressor. It was developed by Malcolm Taylor together with RK (a general purpose data compressor) and RKim (a lossless image compressor).<br /> <br /> At some point, some years ago, it featured the best compression levels among the lossless audio encoders. But then development halted and competitors like [[Monkey's Audio]], [[OptimFROG]] and [[Lossless Audio]] caught on.<br /> <br /> It was closed source. Added to that, it was very slow on decoding and had few features. So, it never became a really popular format.<br /> <br /> Recently, RKsoft was revived by Malcolm Taylor, now with the name MSoftware, so there is hope RKAU development will start again.<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Codecs]]</div>

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